A BURGER King assistant manager pulled off a $6,000 armed
robbery at one of the fast food chain's restaurants.
Charlie Cabo Perez later tried to do it again at another branch
but fled empty handed when he suspected that one of the staff had
called the police.
The 32-year-old Filipino - who also misappropriated $800 of his
employer's money - was yesterday sentenced to five years in jail
and 24 strokes of the cane.
Perez started off by robbing the chain's Esplanade Xchange
branch on April 16, the court heard.
He turned up just before closing time posing as a building
maintenance officer, armed himself with a bread knife, then walked
up to assistant manager Vito Lorielyn Mesajon. He asked her to read
three words he had written by hand in a book: 'Open the safe'.
The robber then took $6,056 and tied up the victim, taping her
mouth and legs.
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